First chicks

[triplea]

Some of you will remember my DIY project
incubator viewtopic.php?f=84&t=3284
well here are some first images of the new chicks.
We have had good success 5 isa brown eggs 4 hatched so far
2 bantam eggs, one hatched the other one died in the shell, he was fully formed and
cracked away most of the shell but I think he was too exhausted to go on.

First chicks 005.jpg

First chicks 007.jpg

First chicks 009.jpg

[Diane]

how cute, are you keeping the chicks?

[Mickp]

well done
you now have a ready supply of home grown roasts

[triplea]

Diane
If they grow up to be hens we probably will keep them, being our first.
If they are roosters then we may look to sell/giveaway.
We have been lucky with these and will be incubating some more later on.

Mickp
Little small at the moment, they'd get stuck between my teeth
Can't eat what you give a name at our house. Our sons named a stray lamb we took in
and I reckon these will get names too.

My eldest son wanted to introduce the lamb to George Foreman (The grill that is)

[finchbreeder]

Well it seems you did your sums right. Now you can have a steady supply of egg layers.
LML

[gomer]

I would definitely call that a great success.Just as good as a bell south i reckon.

[triplea]

The incubator went really well.
My wife want to try some ducks at a later date.
I am pleased with it's performance, there were also
some minor spats between my sons as to whose turn it was to roll them.
I think also, our rooster has plenty of lead in his pencil. ;)